Welcome to Clear Blue Reason,

Credulity. Is it a good thing? That nearly ubiquitous human ability to believe just about anything on little or no evidence or rational consideration? Saying it this way, it is self evident that it could not be a good way to build a better world, but change the word credulity, to faith, and all of a sudden such thinking becomes a virtue, in fact the very highest virtue possible.

Such is the game humanity has been playing with itself for thousands of years, and such is the source of an almost endless assortment of conflict, irrationality, and human atrocity. Yet still we play the game.

At least most of us do. There is, however, a small but growing group of people who have sworn off the Kool-Aid for good, and have come to understand that it's time to grow up and begin facing life on it's own terms. No more desperate wishes, no more irrational fears and no more special pleading, just a clear eyed view of the human condition and what can be done to improve it (outside of psychic pleas to the mothership). Yes it's us. you remember those scary people your Sunday school teacher told you about? The baby eating atheist next door.

In reality though, atheists are not all that scary. In fact to be an atheist means nothing more than to reject the idea of a supernatural god, or in more general terms, to reject an idea with no reasonable basis for thinking it might be true.

At first glance the result of this single decision, might seem to represent a very small difference between the atheist and the theist, however, within this seemingly insignificant singularity of decision lies, compressed and concentrated a seed, from which will grow the entire framework of our philosophical world view.

We likely would all agree that humans are born with an innate capacity to reason which allows us to do things such as puzzle out cause and effect, or weigh the likelihood of the truth of a proposition based on the evidence available. I don't think anyone could argue that this is not a very useful and unique ability, and that it has had a hand in nearly everything that has improved the human condition. Everyone uses this ability to one extent or another to manage the decisions they face every day.

Many of us, however, are taught a contradictory way of looking at the world. In this coercive tradition, children are taught that to believe things on faith is the highest of moral virtues, and that there is only one truth, with which all of reality must conform or be rejected.These reasonable and rational things are taught to children by the people they trust most in the world, before they are even old enough to be aware that they have a mind of their own.

There is no choice made by these children, it has been made for them, and their world will forever be colored by this involuntary manipulation of their mind. Exactly when is it Ok to ignore their natural reason and when isn't it? when is it Ok to believe what they prefer to believe rather than what is real?

In the minds of the religious, these contradictory world views battle it out and this battle is fought by a confused humanity every day, and in every way. From the desperate suicide bomber, looking for a quick path to paradise, to the Commander in Chief of the worlds largest military force, who believes a non existant god not only appoves of his actions, but guides them, and to the average man or woman, who seemingly can bring themselves to believe just about anything, if only their desire to believe it is strong enough - and that bar is set quite low in many cases.

It continues to be time for those of us outside the box, and who can see clearly, the many subtle, and not so subtle, ways religion burdens and degrades humanity, to speak openly and clearly about this subjugation of our human potential to delusion and blind faith. This site is just one such attempt.

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Perhaps the most damaging aspect of blind faith is that it teaches us to accept things as true without evidence, thereby elevating everything into the realm of acceptable truth, leaving our reason slowly twisting in the wind, ready to be blown this way or that on the slightest breeze of our desires.